Subject: bottleful was Beyond Whorf: "things," "qualities," and the origin of nouns and adjectives

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 23:44:24 -0400

>When it is true that it will do wonders, it is still in the can,
>so there is no problem there. What is more of a problem is using
>{lo se botpi} for "a bottleful", because there is nothing to
>indicate that it must fill a bottle, only that it be in one.

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x1 is x2 bottlefuls by standard x3 or in bottle x3 (the bottle is the standard
by which bottlefuls are measured)

phma